SLP404 Gloria Zhao - What Do Bitcoin Core Maintainers Do?

Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin core contributor and maintainer, rejoins me on the show to chat about what bitcoin core maintainers do. We discuss:

• What do Bitcoin Core maintainers do?
• How does Bitcoin Core development work?
• How much ‘power’ do maintainers have?
• Mempools - what are they and why do we need them?
• Interaction with L2 protocols
• Mempool package relay
• RBF

Links:

• Twitter: @glozow
• Package Relay Proposal
• Site mentioned: Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
• Github: glozow
• Brink: @bitcoinbrink
• Bitcoin Core PR Reviews: @BitcoinCorePRs
• SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club 
• SLP242 Jonas Schnelli Maintaining Bitcoin Core: Contributions, Consensus, Conflict

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Mempool.space
• Braiins.com
• Voltage
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)